Went for a walk again today, a real walk, not just because I had to go somewhere. It's been a while since I walked just to walk, and I don't really know why. I guess I've just been a busy with other things, which also means that I've walked a lot to different places, so I guess it evens out... Anyway, I've starting to notice something; As temperatures get colder, my legs start hurting from the strain a lot faster than they did during the summer. Particularly my right leg and foot, which I've had some problems with for several years now.
On my walks today it got so bad that I considered taking a break and just sit down for a while, but I figured that would've made it worse when I started to walk again, particularly due to the cold weather. So I pushed through and finished my walk. When I got back home I did something I haven't done a lot of since I started taking walks in mid-July; I stretched out. I guess if I had done more of that during the past couple of months, the pain in my legs, at least the left leg, wouldn't have been so bad.
The pain in my right leg, however, is something I've been bothered by for several years now, it comes and goes at seemingly random times. I think my right foot is crooked somehow, it sometimes feels like I'm only putting weight on the outside of the foot. But attempting to correct this after it's already started hurting only makes things worse, so I'm not sure what to do. I have a doctor's appointment this Monday, though, so hopefully he'll have something useful to tell me.
I really don't want to stop talking walks, I prefer that over most other forms of exercise, perhaps with the exception of swimming, but I can't do that whenever I want to...
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